The oldest and simplest solution is to mount partitions from a small fast disk where you want fast read/write speeds, and partitions from slower disks everywhere else. Works quite well, too.
Indeed. Especially older PC RPGs had manuals that approached BOOKS accompanying the games. The manual to Fallout 1 was well over 100 pages long, a hilarious read, and even went so far as to include cooking recipes.
I dunno, for some games, I've found manuals to be pretty useful: Neverwinter Nights, Civilization, i.e. games with lots of miscellaneous icons and skill trees that require a decent amount of planning. Sure you can put the content in game, but sometimes it's nice to have a reference guide. Plus the art and flavor text is nice sometimes too.
But did you absolutely require that information printed on paper, or would a PDF or HTML file do the job?
Consider the manual for a game like Neverwinter Nights. You consult it while you play to plan your character's development, as D&D type games are traditionally quite unforgiving and selecting the -wrong- character build may make things impossibly difficult down the road. This is some 30-40 pages of reference materials to the game's mechanics, and not a 5 page list of "press space to jump"-type of information followed by an incomplete list of guns to give you something to do while installing.
Well, technically, mustard the condiment is a chemical agent, in that it has chemicals and it isn't completely inert. But it's only been used as a weapon in food fights, as far as I'm aware.
Strictly speaking, as there are elements in nature that are not elements in man, but no elements in man that are not elements in nature; man is a subset of nature. There is a symbol for the relationship, but slashdot's unicode-fu is weak and fails to render it.
C has an iron-fist grasp on certain niche markets. For one part, there are very few other languages that require so little in terms of bootstrapping. You can run C code (sans standard library) on bare metal, requiring only that you set up the stack before you go. So for systems programming, and code run on embedded systems, C stands uncontested.
Perhaps the goal is not so much about creating an accurate demolition derby simulator, so much as it is about creating a suitable challenge to improve artificial intelligence?... you know, like how chess is a terribly unrealistic war simulator, while still being useful in training strategical thinking.
It's an insultingly cheap shot. If your article isn't interesting enough to merit reading, you should improve it so that it does, not try to fool people into reading it by giving it a catchy title.
The people unable to detect the cellphone radiation are people who claim to get headaches and whatnot from said radiation. If there is no correlation between reported headaches and actual presence of radiation, then obviously that is a relevant find suggesting that the headaches are in fact not related to cellphones or electronics.
Programmers who primarily do java are in most cases the quintessential deadbeat programmer. They're cheap labor; but as with most cheap labor, you get what you pay for. In this case, a bunch of cargo cult code pieced together from examples in the javadocs and from java blogs.
The thing about Java is that it allows anyone to write bad, but functioning code. It's possible to write good Java code as well, but it's exceptionally rare to see, as the training wheels that allow people to get bad code to work frustrates the hell out of people who don't actually need them.
If your goal is to ship the product ASAP no holds barred, then a Java programmer or five is what you seek. If your goal is to ship a well written product that is maintainable and efficient, then you seek someone with actual programming skills.
Uh. There already are rovers on the moon. The Russians put them on the moon in the early '70s. Granted, with 1970s technology, they were less sophisticated than today's mars rovers. But they did essentially the same job, remarkably well I might add.
It's more than likely that these lunar rovers inspired the mars rovers. So it's amusing that the mars rovers should inspire lunar rovers.
Think about it. You are sitting still on a chair, in your house, on the Earth. The Earth is moving around the sun. The sun in moving around the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way Galaxy is moving in whatever direction it is moving in the Local group. The Local Group is moving in whatever direction it is moving. Heck, the entire universe might be moving through some other medium. Who knows. The point is that we are always moving, even when we are sitting still.
Except that motion is meaningless without a frame of reference. In physics, motion is always relative.
Example: If you drive a car, in your reference point, the world is moving towards you, the car in front of you is standing still, and the car in the opposite lane is moving at roughly twice the speed that a pedestrian experiences.
The laws of physics are the same if you're moving at any constant velocity, as illustrated by your own argument: Even though we hurl through space at amazing rates, we're completely oblivious to this motion, and as far as physics is concerned, we might as well sit still.
Changes in velocity (a.k.a. acceleration), on the other hand, does affect physics.
Motion is a relative quantity. There is no universal observable called "motion", as it depends on the observer's own motion (in fancy-speak: It's not Galilean-invariant).
Besides, definition of time doesn't go towards zero for small velocities, it blows up.
Domestic users don't currently need it because domestic user don't currently have it, which means content providers don't provide content that requires it. Same way there was no sane reason for a domestic user to have a broadband connection of any variety in the '90s, when content was adapted for modem-users.
And 99% of all websites are boring, useless, commercial, or self-serving. Let them die...tomorrow would be too soon.
What's interesting to us will not necessarily be the same as what's interesting to future historians. Internet culture is problematic as it doesn't really leave a any persistent trail.
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Instead of Pentium 90 chip, package contained bobcat.
Would not buy again.
Don't forget about Sweden. We've had laws that basically say the same thing as this ruling for ages.
I think it's safe to say they didn't have any exotic computer technology. Of course, hindsight is 20-20. ^.^
We KNOW they had quite exotic computing technology. Setun, for example, used numeric base 3.
Why would you climb a billion-to-one scale model of the Matterhorn?
Because it's barely there.
Yo mama's so fat she accidentally inhaled the Matterhorn.
Aren't you thinking of the Fallout 2 manual?
That was cold, i even made those "mushroom cloud" candies.
Dug out the manuals, and it's like this:
Mushroom clouds and Desert salad in the Fallout 1 manual; "The Big One" pancake and Carrion kabobs in the Fallout 2 manual.
The oldest and simplest solution is to mount partitions from a small fast disk where you want fast read/write speeds, and partitions from slower disks everywhere else. Works quite well, too.
Indeed. Especially older PC RPGs had manuals that approached BOOKS accompanying the games. The manual to Fallout 1 was well over 100 pages long, a hilarious read, and even went so far as to include cooking recipes.
I dunno, for some games, I've found manuals to be pretty useful: Neverwinter Nights, Civilization, i.e. games with lots of miscellaneous icons and skill trees that require a decent amount of planning. Sure you can put the content in game, but sometimes it's nice to have a reference guide. Plus the art and flavor text is nice sometimes too.
But did you absolutely require that information printed on paper, or would a PDF or HTML file do the job?
Consider the manual for a game like Neverwinter Nights. You consult it while you play to plan your character's development, as D&D type games are traditionally quite unforgiving and selecting the -wrong- character build may make things impossibly difficult down the road. This is some 30-40 pages of reference materials to the game's mechanics, and not a 5 page list of "press space to jump"-type of information followed by an incomplete list of guns to give you something to do while installing.
There is quite a difference between http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_(condiment) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_mustard (or mustard gas).
Well, technically, mustard the condiment is a chemical agent, in that it has chemicals and it isn't completely inert. But it's only been used as a weapon in food fights, as far as I'm aware.
Doesn't the same religious people prompt us to teach the controversy?
Salt a rotating weak password with a fixed strong password.
If your strong password is "x!94==SL", then you could cycle like
x!94==SLpcat
x!94==SLpdog
x!94==SLpbob
x!94==SLpmoo
This has the brute-force difficulty of a strong password, combined with the ease of remembering of a strong password that doesn't expire.
Some people attach a running counter to a strong password, but then it's very easy to guess the next password given knowledge of the previous one.
Daleks were seen hovering as early as 1985 in Revelation of the Daleks, but I guess that's digressing.
Strictly speaking, as there are elements in nature that are not elements in man, but no elements in man that are not elements in nature; man is a subset of nature. There is a symbol for the relationship, but slashdot's unicode-fu is weak and fails to render it.
C has an iron-fist grasp on certain niche markets. For one part, there are very few other languages that require so little in terms of bootstrapping. You can run C code (sans standard library) on bare metal, requiring only that you set up the stack before you go. So for systems programming, and code run on embedded systems, C stands uncontested.
Perhaps the goal is not so much about creating an accurate demolition derby simulator, so much as it is about creating a suitable challenge to improve artificial intelligence? ... you know, like how chess is a terribly unrealistic war simulator, while still being useful in training strategical thinking.
Are all against alliteration? AAAARG!!!!!
It's an insultingly cheap shot. If your article isn't interesting enough to merit reading, you should improve it so that it does, not try to fool people into reading it by giving it a catchy title.
Though cellphones use microwaves, and not radio waves.
The people unable to detect the cellphone radiation are people who claim to get headaches and whatnot from said radiation. If there is no correlation between reported headaches and actual presence of radiation, then obviously that is a relevant find suggesting that the headaches are in fact not related to cellphones or electronics.
Programmers who primarily do java are in most cases the quintessential deadbeat programmer. They're cheap labor; but as with most cheap labor, you get what you pay for. In this case, a bunch of cargo cult code pieced together from examples in the javadocs and from java blogs.
The thing about Java is that it allows anyone to write bad, but functioning code. It's possible to write good Java code as well, but it's exceptionally rare to see, as the training wheels that allow people to get bad code to work frustrates the hell out of people who don't actually need them.
If your goal is to ship the product ASAP no holds barred, then a Java programmer or five is what you seek. If your goal is to ship a well written product that is maintainable and efficient, then you seek someone with actual programming skills.
Uh. There already are rovers on the moon. The Russians put them on the moon in the early '70s. Granted, with 1970s technology, they were less sophisticated than today's mars rovers. But they did essentially the same job, remarkably well I might add.
It's more than likely that these lunar rovers inspired the mars rovers. So it's amusing that the mars rovers should inspire lunar rovers.
Think about it. You are sitting still on a chair, in your house, on the Earth. The Earth is moving around the sun. The sun in moving around the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way Galaxy is moving in whatever direction it is moving in the Local group. The Local Group is moving in whatever direction it is moving. Heck, the entire universe might be moving through some other medium. Who knows. The point is that we are always moving, even when we are sitting still.
Except that motion is meaningless without a frame of reference. In physics, motion is always relative.
Example: If you drive a car, in your reference point, the world is moving towards you, the car in front of you is standing still, and the car in the opposite lane is moving at roughly twice the speed that a pedestrian experiences.
The laws of physics are the same if you're moving at any constant velocity, as illustrated by your own argument: Even though we hurl through space at amazing rates, we're completely oblivious to this motion, and as far as physics is concerned, we might as well sit still.
Changes in velocity (a.k.a. acceleration), on the other hand, does affect physics.
Motion is a relative quantity. There is no universal observable called "motion", as it depends on the observer's own motion (in fancy-speak: It's not Galilean-invariant).
Besides, definition of time doesn't go towards zero for small velocities, it blows up.
v = s/t therefore vt = s therefore t - s/v: Time is simply distance over velocity!
Distance between what, and velocity of what? What about stationary objects?
Domestic users don't currently need it because domestic user don't currently have it, which means content providers don't provide content that requires it. Same way there was no sane reason for a domestic user to have a broadband connection of any variety in the '90s, when content was adapted for modem-users.
And 99% of all websites are boring, useless, commercial, or self-serving. Let them die...tomorrow would be too soon.
What's interesting to us will not necessarily be the same as what's interesting to future historians. Internet culture is problematic as it doesn't really leave a any persistent trail.